In Cloud Shell, paste and run the following commands to create a few instances: for i in {1..3}; \ do \ gcloud compute instances create "nginxstack-$i" \ --machine-type "f1-micro" \ --tags nginxstack-tcp-443,nginxstack-tcp-80 \ --zone us-central1-f \ --image "https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/bitnami-launchpad/global/images/bitnami-nginxstack-1-10-2-0-linux-debian-8-x86-64" \ --boot-disk-size "200" --boot-disk-type "pd-standard" \ --boot-disk-device-name "nginxstack-$i"; \ done Run the following command to create a firewall rule to allow external traffic to the instances: gcloud compute firewall-rules create nginx-firewall \ --allow tcp:80,tcp:443 \ --target-tags nginxstack-tcp-80,nginxstack-tcp-443